Thursday Thirteen (57): thin men stalk the streets

1. It's the year the Brexit hoax stalls. Yet, despite it all, Jeremy won't get into Downing Street.
2. Newer MPs will have voices against the silver spoons, although establishment roots run deep.
3. The EU becomes more fragile as a result of populist protest votes driven by immigration agendas.
4. Legal action to depose Don the Con commences alongside fresh concerns about his mental health.
5. Resultant certainties will stabilise markets regaining the losses of 2018.
6. The middle east and some parts of Africa will continue to new levels of unchecked violence.
7. China and the USA will continue their trade war alongside undercover military build up in the China seas.
8. Oil prices wobble because of clumsy attempts to reboot the US economy using 19th Century economics.
9. Putin will stir the pot with decoy military posturing whilst achieving far more with cyber warfare. Other state actors will include China and the USA, embedding network hacks into the internet of everything.
10. Facebook's vacuous presence will take a dive, creating a major uptick for Alphabet/Google. Apple will recover its position once analysts factor the 19% YoY non-iPhone growth. Amazon will recover its blip downwards with enough new ideas to drive another S curve jump. Alibaba will start to become a western competitor for Amazon.
11. Sport will continue tribally with big business and betting manipulating outcomes.
12. Smart people will admit to using reddit to filter their twitter feeds.
13. I'll look back on this list in December and wonder why I wrote it.